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Articles: acupuncture
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Acupuncture: East Meets West
by Dr Richard Halvorsen
Some practitioners in the West have questioned the necessity of practising acupuncture exclusively as traditionally taught. Are there other ways of using it that could be equally or more effective and possibly more appropriate to its use in the West?[2]
Fractal Acupuncture
by Dr Zude Ye and Zoe Desmond
We are writing to introduce the fractal needle, a new therapy developed by Dr Zude Ye, based on the widespread, and age-old technique of puncturing the body with a needle.
Getting the Needle - Reminiscences of an early UK Acupuncture Student
by Arthur E Bromley
The author looks back at the trials and tribulations, and many amusing moments, during his three-year acupuncture training course, which he commenced in 1966 at the very first Acupuncture College in the UK.
The Pleasures and Pains of Acupuncture
by Sam Hart
I first came into contact with acupuncture because I'd broken my back in a snowboarding accident a couple of months before. I'd been hurtling down a slope when I caught the wrong edge of my board on the snow. My bottom hit the ground with so much force that I compacted a lumbar vertebrae, crushed the two surrounding discs and broke a rib where it branched off from my spine.
Traditional Acupuncture: Embodying the Emotions
by Anna-May Silvestro and assisted by John Hesselworth
The title of this article came out of a conversation I had with a GP in Leamington Spa. We were discussing the treatment of a person diagnosed as having a manic depressive illness. "Doctor," 'L' remarked, "I did not know that acupuncture was useful for mental health problems". My response, which gave me the idea and the title for this article was "Yes, acupuncture embodies the emotions".
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